The Russian Perspective: "There Will Be War In Ukraine"

With Ukrainians living in the Crimea region voting to join Russia, the West calling for sanctions (well some of the West), boots still on the ground, and markets apparently of the belief that all is well in the world once again, we thought the Russian perspective on the next steps was useful...

The current crisis is not about Crimea. It is about the rights of Russian-speakers throughout Ukraine whom the Kremlin wants to protect from violence and discrimination. Russia does not want a military intervention in Crimea and does not want to take Crimea from Ukraine.

There is a political solution to this crisis.

First, create a coalition government in Kiev composed of all parties, including those from the east and south of the country. The current government is dominated by anti-Russian extremists from western Ukraine.

Second, Ukraine needs to draft a democratic constitution that has guarantees for Ukraine's Russian-speaking population that would grant official status to the Russian language and establish the principle of federalism.

Third, presidential and parliamentary elections must be held soon. Independent election observers must play an active role in ensuring that the elections are free and fair. There is a real danger that they will be manipulated by the neo-Nazi militants who de facto seized power in a coup.

If these democratic and peaceful solutions to the crisis in Ukraine are rejected by the opposition forces that have seized power in Kiev, I am afraid that Russia will have no other choice but to revert to military means. If the junta leaders want to avoid war, they need to adopt Moscow's peaceful and democratic proposals and adhere to them.

Those currently in power in Kiev are carrying out a political strategy that is not so much pro-European as it is anti-Russian, as evidenced by the surprisingly heavy-handed tactics the U.S. and European Union have employed in Ukraine. In the end, a minority executed a violent coup that removed the democratically elected and legitimate president of Ukraine.

The Kremlin believes that the current Ukrainian leadership will manipulate the elections planned for May 25 to install a single leader or coalition government functioning much as former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili did in Tbilisi. A "Ukrainian Saakashvili" will unleash an even more repressive campaign of intimidation against Russian-speakers, one that over several years would stoke anti-Russia hysteria among the general population.

After that, Kiev may evict Russia's Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol and purge Crimea of any Russian influence. Ukraine could easily become a radicalized, anti-Russian state, at which point Kiev will fabricate a pretext to justify taking subversive action against Moscow. This looks especially likely considering that ruling coalition members from the neo-fascist Svoboda and Right Sector parties have already made territorial claims against Russia. They could easily send their army of activists to Russia to join local separatists and foment rebellion in the North Caucasus and other unstable regions in Russia. In addition, Russia's opposition movement will surely want to use the successful experience and technology of the Euromaidan protests and, with the help and financial support of the West, try to carry out their own revolution in Moscow. The goal: to remove President Vladimir Putin from power and install a puppet leadership that will sell Russia's strategic interests out to the West in the same way former President Boris Yeltsin did in the 1990s.

The official census puts the Russian minority in Ukraine at 16 percent of the total population, although that number was falsified. The actual number is closer to 25 percent. Surveys indicate that 45 percent of the country's population speak Russian at home, 45 percent speak Ukrainian and 10 percent speak both languages. In the most recent Gallup survey, when asked in which language they would like to be polled, 83 percent of respondents chose Russian. Taking into account the rural population in western and central Ukraine, about 75 percent of the people, probably speak Russian. Of that 75 percent, only about 10 percent are those in Kiev and a few other major cities who supported the protests. This means that only 35 percent of the population are attempting to impose its will on the remaining 65 percent, using a violent coup to achieve their goals.

Putin made the right decision: He did not to wait for that attack and took preventative measures. Many in the West say the Kremlin's reactions were paranoiac, but Germany's Jews also thought the same of leaving the country in 1934. Most of them chose to believe they were safe and remained in Germany even after Hitler came to power. The infamous Kristallnacht took place five years later, one of the first early chapters in the "Final Solution." Similarly, just four years remain until Russia's presidential election in 2018, and there is a strong risk that subversive forces within and outside Russia will try to overthrow Putin, in part using their new foothold in Ukraine.

Will there be war in Ukraine? I am afraid so. After all, the extremists who seized power in Kiev want to see a bloodbath. Only fear for their own lives might stop them from inciting such a conflict. Russia is prepared to move its forces into southern and eastern Ukraine if repressive measures are used against the Russian-speaking population or if a military intervention occurs. Russia will not annex Crimea. It has enough territory already. At the same time, however, it will also not stand by passively while Russophobic and neo-Nazi gangs hold the people of Crimea, Kharkiv and Donetsk at their mercy.

Or out another way:

If the extremists who seized power in Kiev do not accept Russia's democratic proposals, Russia will likely be forced to revert to military means to solve the crisis in Ukraine.

All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine Smolensk and Viasma soon fell By Autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel Closer and closer to Moscow they come Riding the wind like a bell General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill

Winter brought with it the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads Gluing the tracks of their tanks to the ground, while the skies filled with snow

And all that I ever Was able to see The fire in the air, glowing red Silhouetting the snow on the breeze

"In Kyiv late Thursday, a sombre crowd on Independence Square alternately fretted and fumed at both the speed and manner in which the Crimean question was being forced upon them.Beset by financial crisis and braced for a wave of bad economic news as their new government readies to acquiesce to unpopular reforms as a condition of international financial rescue, many Ukrainians described the situation in Crimea as one crisis too many.“I feel sick. I could cry. I joined the Maidan to stand against corruption, not to push against Russians or push Crimea away,” said Katrina Yehorenko, one among thousands who strode the charred square Thursday, absorbing and sharing the day’s news.

“We love Crimea. Our problems, their problems. They are the same. We are the same.”

Yeah so they stood in the square for a right wing neo nazi illegitimate government because she couldnt wait three months for elections to vote out the corruption. What kind of people does she think she will get with Tymoshenko who was a corrupt pro EU monster now in charge again with her party goons. Now she lost Crimea ahhhh. Listen Katrina Yehorenko go CRY ME A RIVER OF TEARS you impressionabe young F**K with your little Maidan T shirt and your stupid little flags painted on your cheeks and tits. You got screwed big time already by the EU and losing Crimea which was never yours to begin with is JUST THE START, hope you can give good blow jobs so you can earn some money to pay your huge gas bills and increased food bills. I hear they like Ukraine girls in Brussels and Tel Aviv, lots of pricks needs oral massages. I think your name Yehorenko is ironic 'You'whore' what did you get yourself 'into'

Yushenko was an elected leader that got them the best deal, they had 30% savings on gas, open market with Russia and place to sell their goods the Euros dont want, they could of kept their farmland and Crimea and made money off the lease of the base (90 million dollars a year). Now an illegal coup lost them Crimea, their gas bills double, food prices will go through the roof, corruption will be more rampant because now the Euros want a cut of Ukraine and they will take flesh literally and figuratively. Wait till IMF and Goldman Sachs come in an manipulate markets on every commodity, doubling prices through warehousing products and metals and so on and so on. Just like they have done in Serbia and Romania. Not only that but with multinational oil companies fracking your heartland expect your water quality to go to carcinogenic status. Thank the lord Crimea got away from your fate. A beautiful land, the Pearl of the Black Sea, may she be as she always was safe from filthy EU Hands, Praise the Lord, Amen.

If he did that it would absolutley make him BadAss in my book. Can you imagine the heart attack Goldaman & JP Morgan would have if Russia and China started speading freedom (from bankers) for real? OMG!?!

Also why was the dumb broad not storming the parliment when the neo nazis passed laws outlawing Russian as a spoken language if she is the same as the Russians, "They are the same, we are the same." LOL you dumbs**t. Why didnt you stay with Mother Russia if you we are the same and we have the same problems of the EU and USA wanting to rip us off of natural resources, box us in, and split us up. You made your bed now lie in it, we are RUS be we gave you a chance and you are grown up and made your decision even though we warned you and we went out of our way to give you a phenomenal deal. Now you are Slaves Again to the EU like you were to the Crimean Tatars after they invaded Crimea, read about the Fates of the Captives in this wiki link about half way down the article

"USA and USSR will now have an excuse to sell Ukraineans some outdated weapons to fund their own military industrial complex."

AldousHuxley, I feel compelled to correct your lines, there is NO more USSR, no more the bankster propped Bolshevik rulers ... it's soooo Cold War...

I believe you did instead mean its successor, the USSA vis-à-vis the Russia Federation!

And please do not ignore the CULTURAL and LANGUAGE affinities in the geopolitics equation; the NWO globalists may very hardly push us into believing and adopting ONE unified global culture and taste, but let me tell you the real life is unlike that at all--we, the human being, have our own cultural and taste diversities!!

Under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the US, Russia, Ukraine and the UK agreed not to threaten or use force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine. They also pledged never to use economic coercion to subordinate Ukraine to their own interest.

Russia has military bases in Ukraine. They aren't invading, they are just protecting their assets. If the Okinawa prefecture had the same turmoil that is happening in the Cremia, the US MIC would put up a front for sure.

War in or for the Ukraine? No, I doubt it. NO ONE in the West would help. Ukraine is on its own.

DoChenRollongBearing...Unfortunately I think that you may be mistaken.

Something happened today that makes me think that this will turn out as a USA-Russian War.

A RUSSIAN Anti Submarine Warfare Ship was sunk in a Harbor Channel. Now the West Friendly Ukranians claim that the Russians scuttled their own ship to bottle up the "Ukranian Naval Fleet".

What if that report is not entirely accurate?

Let's play a game, "Connect the Dots". Let's see what kind of picture emerges.

What do we know?

The United States CIA goes into the Ukraine with the INTENT on toppling the Government.

The United States Government covers up the fact that the Sniper Attacks were done by "friendlies" and not the Ukranian Government.

(Just who were the snipers??? Who are amongst the most elite sinpers in the World?)

Now we get an Russian Anti Submarine Warship (ASW) sunk in the middle of the Channel.

(That is what the Japanese were doing at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, while they were attempting to sink the US Battleship Nevada which had built up a head of steam and was underway... If the Japanese Imperial Navy Air Forces had sunk her in the Deep Water Channel then it would have bottled up Pearl Harbor rendering it unusable.)

So let's speculate...

What if there was a United States Navy Attack Nuclear Submarine in that harbor?

What if a Seal Team, originating from that Submarine, was the elite sniper team that was used to kill the civilians?

What if the Captain of that Nuclear Sub saw a Russian Anti Submarine Warship approaching and did not have time to escape and evade? Will he surface and surrender his submarine?

The sniper attacks, if carried out by a US Navy Seal Team, is an act of War. The presence of a US Navy Nuclear Submarine in that harbor, if it was there, is an act of War.

Will he surface and surrender his Submarine? What would you do if you were the Captain of that "hypothetical" US Navy Nuclear Submarine?

If the Russian ASW detects your presence, and in Shallow Water that is almost a CERTAINTY, then there is not any Deep Water in which to hide that Submarine. In fact if that detection happened then your Ship will be destroyed by Depth Charges if you did not surface, surrender, and be boarded.

If you surrender your vessel then that gives Russia a pretext for War.

So you have no other alternative but to attack and sink the threat.

AND EVEN IF NONE OF THIS SPECULATION IS FACTUAL THEN THAT SUNK ASW GIVES RUSSIA A FALSE FLAG PRETEXT FOR INVADING THE UKRAINE AND GOING TO WAR AGAINST THE USA.

And they can sell this story to their population and their population will buy into it as much as the USA population bought into the Iraq and Afghanistan unjustified invasions.

Not to mention that the Russians also have permanent passive hydrophone networks and Helix equipped with active dipping sonars, i.e. they'll know if a fish farted near Kersh Strait or Sevastopol, this ain't the movies.

Maybe in a few weeks Ukraine is burning. Then it will be like Syria except the territories secured by Russia prior to the start of the war.

There will be war because the US has decided it needs to destabilize Europe otherwise Europe is lost for them. The Ukraine is going to serve as an example. Europe needs the US for protection from the evil Russia. That is going to be the policy. At least this is what they are trying to do. Economically Europe is on a much better path compared to a few years ago - in contrast to the US. Now the US plays its last card.

Sheesh. There was nothing quiet about the missiles being removed from Cuba. And while the composition of U.S. nuclear weapons stored in Turkey changed after Reagan-Gorbachev INF Treaty, we've never had nuclear-tipped missiles in the NATO "bunkers" there. Well, mebbe they have some ALCMs or gravity bombs stored in bunkers but they'd need to be loaded onto a plane to be used. Nuclear posture is now purely strategic, and so we got rid of all the deployed tacticals like on surface ships, though they're probably kept somewhere in some stage of partial readiness just in case we go back to the nuclear-war-fighting posture that ended in the 1980s after INF and the unilateral reductions from Bush Sr.

Here's a primer. The "triad" is CONUS-based USAF Minuteman ICBM W-Xs in Midwest silos which can be on alert at any time, USN boomers carrying Trident D-5 W-88s, etc. which can be on alert at any time, and then there's the off-alert USAF "special weapons" stored in bunkers which would be mostly ALCMs (Ws) and gravity bombs (Bs) or what-have-yous for our nuclear-capable bombers and fighter-bombers.

Bush Sr. recalled all surface-ship-based USN nukes to shore depots leaving just the ICBMs on our boomers--not even a big aircraft carrier can have any nuclear-tipped weapons on board. Way before that, the Dr. Strangelove-style Operation Chrome Dome of B-52s on constant alert ended in late 1960s after Thule, Greenland crash on heels of Palomares.

Turkey could have USAF weapons and/or USN weapons in land bunkers under NATO flags, but they're not launch ready unless you take the time to load them onto airplanes or ships. So scratch the first-strike fear.

Russkies are afraid of our forward-based radars on their borders which could eventually be hooked up to missile interceptors using kinetic anti-missile defense systems to negate THEIR land-based ICBM first-strike capability.

Bottom line is that there are no launch-ready missiles with nukes at NATO bases anywhere. Forward-stored weapons, sure, but the only first-strike capability we have outside of our Midwest silos would be the Navy boomers with MIRV'd Trident D-5 missiles and the W-88.

Fun fact not many know is that there's only one country who uses our nuclear weapons under their own go-codes and that's the U.K. per the special relationship we have with them. While NATO troops might be guarding our off-shore weapons in NATO bunkers, NATO doesn't have the go-codes to activate them.

Keep in mind, that when the Kremlin ordered a Russian Nuclear Alert, in late 2012 things suddenly changed. Have a look at all the readiness and reliability inspections and the changes in command that occurred to US strategic forces right after that. It went on all through 2013. Make no mistake, they have dusted the nuke arsenal and warmed it up again. Russia warned this would occur if they pressed ahead with placing sensors and anti-missile forces close to Russia. Putin said this left Moscow no option but to make sure its missiles would be able to smash their way through any such missile defense, else mutual deterrence could collapse.

“Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War“ by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Read through “Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War“ by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, "a book that cuts through the chaos and deception to show the reader exactly how and why humanity is facing an existential threat. It is a wake-up call that the world is being pushed towards catastrophic conflict." SYRIA is one of the targets to take over (in near future), with the next one is IRAN!!!

This book shows that, incredibly, the same deception that the Western governments and media perpetrated to facilitate the war on Iraq less than a decade ago is now being repeated with Iran. But the real threat to world peace and the future of humanity is not Iran and its non-existent nuclear weapons program – it is the US-led alliance of NATO powers and their Middle East partners, Israel, Turkey and the handful of Gulf Arab monarchs.

The real agenda behind the drive for war is imperialist control of natural resources in a region that possesses some 60 per cent of all known reserves of oil and gas – the lifeblood of the capitalist global economy. Cloaked with the fictitious cover of “war on terror”, “international security” and “humanitarian intervention”, realities are being turned upside down.

The agenda for global control of resources is a long-term dynamic that Washington and its NATO allies have had on the drawing board for decades. The nine-year war on Iraq is but one episode of this unfolding scheme of conquest. The NATO-orchestrated regime change in Libya is also part of this military roadmap, which now has Iran in its sights. But this war lust will not stop with Iran. It is about global conquest by Western powers in which ultimately China and Russia are also marked out as future enemies.

Disturbingly, the US-led agenda of permanent war has incorporated the doctrine of pre-emptive strikes with all military options, including the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons and a new generation of so-called monster bombs. The imminent military showdown in the Persian Gulf could turn out to be not just a regional explosion of latent conflicts – it may be the trigger for a conflagration between global powers armed with nuclear arsenals capable of unleashing destruction that puts the very future of the planet in the balance.

The Western public has a vital task in preventing their governments’ drive for war. Michel Chossudovsky’s book is an essential tool in equipping the public for that task by showing them the truth of what is at stake.

Oh, I sure do remember - and Nikita quickly moved to put missiles on our doorstep - in Cuba. What seems missing in this discussion is recognition that the U.S. renegged on a gentleman's agreement with Gorbachev that if the Berlin wall came down and Poland and Czecheslovakia were granted independence, NATO would not accept them into the alliance - or place forces there. Hence, the Ruskies are very interested to keeping NATO out of Ukraine. The American public seems oblivious.

The US had a decapitation capability since the first fully-operational Polaris patrols in 1961, it has not lost that ability since then, (53 years) but they have expanded it greatly since. If they were going to use it, they would have done so, a long time ago, WC. But given the stupidity of NeoCons and the grade of muppet with the 'football', it is all too possible.

This is true. That is why Russia built Iskander missile systems. Mobile and easy to hide, taking a fast low approach to targets, it will go off on western anti missile sites minutes before the Russian ICBMs launch. Iskander is not perfect, but it is made to order to form a shield behind which Russian ICBMs can fly. Lets be clear, I grew up in the cold war, and I was in the military during years of the cold war, I know very well what nuclear weapons will do. I think the USA is insane to think that they can first strike Russia's triade of nuclear weapons and avoid losing every major city in the USA. Russia has more than enough city busters, and what are called rubble pounders. 5-6-7 warheads per major city. I don't care how good Missile Defense is, they can't get enough to prevent the end of our world here in USA. The neocons are more insane than Hitler. I am convinced that Putin is a puppy dog compared to Americas aggressive neocon movement.

Straight to the point as usual Jacko. The fact that these people combine messianic fervor with no direct living knowledge of defeat. History has bitch-slapped the Russians so many times, you can count on even lousy Russian leaders being more cautious than these flaming neocons--who seem to be confident that they represent real policy in government.

"War with Syria Would Fulfill Neoconservative Plan for Middle East Regime Change"

There is great division of opinion regarding potential U.S. military action in Syria. However, one group is ecstatic over President Obama’s endorsement of a military attack on Damascus. These are the Neconservatives who dominated the George W. Bush administration, and who still hold tremendous influence in Washington. An attack on Syria would be one step in fulfilling “stage two” of a longstanding neoconservative plan to bring about regime change throughout the Middle East in three stages: Iraq, Syria and finally Iran.

The pattern for this plan has been to wait for an event that can be sold to the world public as justification for military attack, and then to push forward, pressuring the military and government officials to move forward with the next stage of regime change.

President Obama is, perhaps unwittingly, fulfilling this plan, conceived in 1996 by an informal organization, the Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000, headed by Richard Pearle and including well-known neo-conservatives, Douglas Feith, Meyrav Wurmser, David Wurmser, Robert Loewenberg, Charles Fairbanks, Jr. and James Colbert. All are connected with organizations favoring right-wing extremist Israeli policies toward Palestinians and other Middle East nations. The Study Group plan, titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” was prepared for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The “clean break” refers to their advice that Israel break from the 1993 Oslo peace accords.

The 1996 plan explicitly calls for attacks on Iraq, Syria and eventually Iran. It states: "Israel can shape its strategic environment . . . by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions."

Many of the same figures carried this plan forward two years later under another rubric, The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. In a letter to President Clinton and House Speaker Gingrich in 1998, the members of the PNAC, including Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Zoellick called for the removal of Saddam Hussein, carrying out the first stage of the agenda of the “Clean Break” plan.

Once George W. Bush was elected president, many of these figures took up prominent positions within his administration. Following the tragic destruction of the Twin Towers in New York and the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the removal of Saddam Hussein became a policy objective for the United States.

The PNAC wrote a letter to President Bush in 2001 stating: “...even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.”

Any of the ones pushing for amnesty are owned by the NWO and are NeoCons. McCain, Rubio, Graham, Flake, Cantor, Ryan, Rogers in MI, and many more. Loads of Democrats are onboard as well.

The only thing that may hold these psychopath's back is hopefully enough in the Pentagon. I am not optimistic because Obama just changed the head of nuclear weapons Air Force General and the Russians know that. He is a dual citizen most likely.

Or approve the new nat-gas pipeline from KSA, the Emirates, et al., up through Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, "The" Yugo, The Slav, The Croatia, The Whereverthefuck, make agreements with the Georgian terrorists and their buddies everywhere... but then again, the real problem will be tunneling from Italy through the Matterhorn as it might disrupt the High Ski Season at Gstaad. Or at least waive the EPA studies for Zurich's Banhoffestrasse as the vaults under the sidewalks are said to be stuffed full other people's gold, giving a whole new meaning to pavement. Another executive order would be nice.

Two Pipelines: one pipeline 'Nord Stream' completed in 2011, is beneath the Baltic sea linking Russia and Germany already, and the South Stream beneath the Black sea will be on-line in 2015. European's gets ~ 33% of natgas from Russia

Hell yeah, that passes Obama's common sense meter. " We'll approve Keystone XL so long as its put through the Ukraine. Two problems solved, one stone. What a great leader I am.... Nearly as good as when I killed Bin Laden with my bare hands."

I think it has everything to do with SUV gas tanks and everything to do with "energy self-sufficient" and everything to do with collapse of any possible pretension that USA ever had. Because they lost it all.

No credibility left, No finance left that is not Mafia; no credible industry. no credible politicians, ONLY slave culture evolving. No education. No nutirition, no morality, NOT one moral credible stance.

And now we will see the dollar melt that will cripple the whole society ( except the few).

I have had enough of this garbage from Washington. I think the intelligent world, for good or bad, no longer wishes to hear any more from DC. No longer. Period. End.

looks like there will be an economic war first. obamba has signed on for sanctions against russia. they have already said if this happens they will sell all their USTNs, not pay american banker debt and encourage allies to do the same. that could easily total half a trillion to start...and the dollar could easily go to 50...and lower.

surprised tyler has not made a post on this development as it applies directly to the death of the dollar.

If the US forces the EU to join them in sanctions, then the first, legitimate and powerful retaliation that hurts the US (USD!), is to demand payment in Gold for EU deliveries. If they wanted to really rub salt into the wound, they'd accept Yuan, and Reals. India can pay in gold, since they got so much of it, and tow the US line anyway.

It attacks the petro-Dollar at its heart. Plus you have driven a wedge between the EU (that still gets its oil and gas) and the US.

I post this because Amerikans better get of the war wagon because it will be the final straw in the USSA. teh weapons systems are old or fake junk like the F-35. Just typical scam stuff like Washington DC is a total scam.

First of all, I have to say I am German - I take a German perspective.

The Germans are pro Putin! They predominantly understand the Russian legitimate interests, since they know the Russian history quite well. The polls over here are all manipulated - when the newspaper "Der Tagesspiegel" had an online poll where 78% of the participants were pro Putin removed the poll immediately, since the German mass media are busy trying to manipulate the population to be pro "action" against Russia - whatever it means...

Marc Faber predicts a World War to outbreak within the next 10-15 years - sometimes things happen sooner. All Western countries are bankrupt - the US in the front. If you take history books you will find out that such situations always led to war. Germany was broke in 1939 - that Hitler started a war had to do with it! A war would cover up the backgrounds for the bankrupcy of all Western states - the manipulated population would gather behind the respective leaders. Prepare well and do your 11 o'clock shopping...

Good comment. I find Gerd Schroeder better here than Merkel. The most important partnership in Europe is Germany + Russia and always has been since at least Frederick the Great. Gorbachev's "Commion European Home" is a major threat to the USA which has occupied Europe and unlike the Russians has failed to withdraw.

Why we need new US airbases in Bulgaria and Lithuania and Poland is unclear, don't bases in Turkey, italy, UK, Spain suffice ?

It is as if europe is being colonised and occupied by the US Military-Banker Complex

A poster remarked on another thread that Russians do not want to fight fellow Slavs. Actually, when push comes toshove. Russians are perfectly willing to fight Poles and western (i.e. Catholic) Ukrainians. who are regarded as little more than sell-outs to central european cultural forces. As the Serbs would say in regard to Slovenians, "theyare just Austrian wannabe's"

The PURPOSE of this planet is Chaos, we come here by Choice to learn something at a soul level. Where we are making mistakes is not learning to Harmonize with the Chaos, love it or hate it Violence is the way of this planet. Not one human eats without an act of violence being committed [vegetarians/vegans] included, the sooner we come to peace with that and learn to better control it the better off we will be.

@ Nemo: It is my understanding that you could live quite long while eating nothing but fruit (indefinitely even if you had access to a decent variety); at the very least you could maintain your health a lot longer than if all you had access to was frankencorn and it's fructosey derivatives.

True to the degree that you would have to live in a climate where you can grow apple and oranges at the same time, not quite reasonable, and you would still have some serious nutrient deficencies, truly we are meant to be omnivores.

seriously, folks, he are violent. it is survival - kill(neatly wrapped chicken, ah never mind the machine that husked the head right on off) or be killed(the chicken pecked you to death with anoth 100 helping- you got too drunk and passed out in the coop)...

True I agree, but this is Fight Club, and all I can do is lay out the seeds, it is up to the individual to sow them or not, otherwise I am violating their Free Will, and sadly 99.9% of the pop has such a misunderstanding of what The Law of Free Will really means......

Yes, riddle me this does our measly 80 years really mean ANYTHING on a planet that is 4.4+ Billion years old?? How long would we humans have to live to truly hit any form of [dare I say] enlightenment - 100yrs, 200, 500? Just things to ponder.

I don't really know where to begin. You're assuming there is some significance in the value 4.4+ billion. You're aassuming there is some significance in the value 80. You're assuming enlightment is some absolute state. We humans make the mistake that our fate is any different than a mosquito, or beetle, or mouse, or hamster, or squirrel, or cow, or elephant or chimpanzee, or dolphin, or whaile. All these are alive and consious beings with their own internal view of reality. We have no special place in the genera of living beings, we think we do, but so may a mosquito in its own way.

I'd love to know how you arrive at the conclusion that we were consious before being born. As far as ideas, that one is right out there. I'm always flummoxed why we just can't conceive of the simplest possibility, that nothing happened before and nothing will happen after. We are indeed a funny species. We always have to complicate stuff with our imaginations.

I'm a few steps beyond even that, but we each must find our own way there. There are many distractions along the way to pull you from the path if you let them. Remember one thing...This is just a Game.

If it is a game then the point would be to win...that's the way games work. Even if you're a big fat cheater!Your world view is...um, crazy:) And crazy is not a game it is a lack and of truthful perception, which is a choice.

Which brings us back to the ultimate question: What is truth? If it doesn't exist then we can have no comprehension of what it is, but since I have a comprehension of what truth is it must exist. There are just some "things you can't not know"...Natural Law for instance. Ooooo, hot button!This is fun just like being back in Philosophy 101

Very true when you consider everything is covered with microbes which are living. However I'd argue that at least the Veggies are trying by not eating they are better controlling it which is more at peace than accepting shit and living in it.

Purpose implies order and direction, chaos implies dissarray and non-purpose. How is it we arrived here by "choice"? I'd contend you had little to do with your entrance into this world/planet. Maybe you jumped the space time continuum and trip through hyperspace...Harmonize with chaos? Really? How do you harmonize with that which you cannot control or even percieve the next event or move? Sounds like a statist pipe dream. Love and hate? How do either of those fit into your model? And what is violence? You are very flexible with your word usage, with the only definition given as your capitalizing the first letter, somehow giving each word authority. Perhaps you could give us the name of an author and/or dietician (apparently) to set us straight about our purpose...or is it the planets purpose...or is it Chaos? What???!!! I like mangos...

It's no secret that I hate all wars - using violence as a solution to complex problems is abhorrent and insane to me - so I completely understand the disillusionment of those who are against the Russian moves, but, and this is a big but, I have no qualms about bringing justice to criminals (convicted criminals at that) currently running the regime in Kiev using titles of office to which they were never elected to by their people. These neonazis murdered their own supporters and policemen to be where they are today, they have clearly shown themselves to be the kind of nutjobs who start wars and ethnic genocide ostracising millions of their own russian speaking Ukraineans with their first legislation to outlaw speaking in russian and contacting known terrorists to fight against Russia.

There are other issues at work of course, energy and ME politics threading through the mosaic, but if they all end up in jail or a ditch, it'd be a good day for humanity. I only hope they don't end up anywhere near me as troublesome refugees preaching their brand of insanity when this is all over.